Microinsurance, microfinance and weather index insurance
Below are a selection of articles and papers about microinsurance, microfinance risk transfer and index based insurance.
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Microinsurance posts from our blog
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Learning to insure the poor 
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The global state of sustainable insurance
A report by the Insurance Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries
From the World Bank
Scaling Up Index Insurance: What is needed for the next big step forward?
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
The Landscape of Microinsurance in Africa
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance for Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Insurance in Developing Countries: Exploring Opportunities in Microinsurance
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Microinsurance: Improving Risk Management for the Poor No. 18
Newsletter from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Agricultural Microinsurance Global Practices and Prospects
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
The Potential of Weather Index Insurance for Spurring a Green Revolution in Africa
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Insuring disaster: A study of weather index-based insurance in developing world agriculture
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Weather Insurance Derivatives to Protect Rural Livelihoods
Paper from the Microinsurance Centre LLC.
Parametric Insurance: General market trends and perspectives for the African insurance sector
Paper by Hector Ibarra, Partner Re
Weather Index Insurance and the Pricing of Spatial Basis Risk
Paper by Michael Norton, Dan Osgood and Calum G. Turvey
The use of weatherbased indices for rent adjustment clauses in agriculture in the case of German farms
Paper from the Department for Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Goettingen
The Potential for Scale and Sustainability in Weather Index Insurance
Paper from the International Fund for Agricultural Development
Pitfalls and potential of institutional change: Rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management
From the University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics
